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n. - The act of starting a basketball game with a jump ball.

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  • Why do we keep ending up with the same terrible vehicle designs (i.e., Shuttle, Shuttle-C, ALS, NLS, and now Ares I) and the same terrible engine designs (i.e., SSME, OMS, and...
  • This particular set of plumbing feeds gaseous hydrogen (tapped off the SSMEs, I believe - not 100 percent sure where the tap-off point is as I write this) back into the...
  • The project will have tap-off points at Palanpur, Ajmer, Jaipur, Rewari and Delhi
  • Ah well, better too many hotdogs and popcorn at the kick-off, face-off, tap-off, first pitch, than too little.
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